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9780822328575

Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822328575

  • ISBN10:

    0822328577

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-06-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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"Volker Scheid's book is a seriously original work. One of its great strengths is Scheid's refusal to see Chinese medicine as either unitary or centred. He insists on its plurality, with incursions of Western biomedicine as just more elements within an already multiple field of medical practices. The other great strength is Scheid's refusal to see medicine as static. He brings to the fore the creative interplay between Chinese and Western traditions, the dynamism that can emerge in the intersection of radically disparate techniques, remedies, and conceptual schemes. Along the way, Scheid develops a fascinating epistemology and ontology of agency, human and nonhuman, that makes sense of the plurality and syntheses that he confronts us with. This is a path-breaking book--one that could be a model for future work in the history of medicine and in cultural studies at large."--Andrew Pickering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
ix
Acknowledgments xi
Timeline on Chinese History xv
Geographical Map of China xvi
Introduction 1(8)
PART I Chinese Medicine and the Problem of Plurality
Orientations
9(18)
Plurality and Synthesis: Toward a Multisited Ethnography of Chinese Medicine
27(38)
PART II Contemporary Chinese Medicine: Six Perspectives
Hegemonic Pluralism: Chinese Medicine in a Socialist State
65(42)
Dilemmas and Tactical Agency: Patients and the Transformation of Chinese Medicine
107(27)
Shaping Chinese Medicine: Integration, Innovation, Synthesis
134(30)
Students, Disciples, and the Art of Social Networking: Becoming a Physician of Chinese Medicine
164(36)
Bianzheng lunzhi: The Emergent Pivot of Contemporary Chinese Medicine
200(38)
Creating Knowledge: The Origins of Plurality
238(25)
PART III Anthropological Interventions
The Future of Chinese Medicine
263(12)
Appendix. Four Attempts at Systematizing Pattern Differentiation and Treatment Determination 275(16)
Notes 291(66)
Bibliography of Premodern Chinese Medical Texts 357(4)
Bibliography of Modern Chinese and Western Sources 361(36)
Index 397

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